Dirty Dozen to Nightriders: Our Favorite Air Force Squadron Nicknames
War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Jennifer Grant who writes on behalf of the American Flags Each year, approximately 1,200 young men and…
Always Facing Forward: Why the American Flag Appears Reversed on Military Patches
War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Jennifer Grant who writes on behalf of American Flags The American flag, the nation’s symbol of patriotism,…
Evolution of AMMO
War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Thomas who writes on behalf of SWGGUN There are many things that we take for granted every…
Diary Reveals Firsthand Account of Fierce Turkish-Russian Battles
War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Jack Snowden Following the calamitous defeat of the Turkish army at Sarıkamış in late 1914 and early 1915,…
Nigerian Civil War – The Ashes Linger
Hostilities in the Nigerian civil war commenced on the 6th day of June 1967; it is one of the sourest conflicts ever to (dis)grace the…
Ensign Jumonville, George Washington & the Dawn of The Seven Years’ War
No one expected Joseph Coulon de Villiers (1718-1754) to be the cause of a worldwide conflict. A minor French noble, Sieur de Jumonville became an…
Marines’ Secret Weapon in the Pacific: Navajo Code Talkers
The Navajo ‘Code Talkers’ were one of the most unrecognized groups of Native Americans involved in cryptography in military history. They used their native Navajo…
Commandos – Keeping Discipline in the Boer Army
The second Anglo-Boer War, also called the South African War, started on 11 October 1899. Two young Boer republics were pitted against the might of…
The Soviet Bomber Arsenal in Photos
The USSR’s force of long-range strategic bomber aircraft evolved out of USSR copies of the United States’ (US) B-29 strategic bomber aircraft. By the early…
China’s Red Guard and the Cultural Revolution
War History online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Dean Smith “At this moment of potential national emergency, Mao chose to smash the Chinese State and…
Amazing Story of Gun Running in the Turkish War of Independence – The Alemdar
War History Online presents this article from Jack Snowden The source for the adventurous tales of the Alemdar are two ship’s logs, the first of…
On A Hill Far Away: Remains of Marine from Chosin Reservoir Close to Being Identified
War History Online presents this Guest Article from Ned Forney We’ll never know the terror 18-year-old Marine PFC Edward “Eddie” Thorn experienced in the final…